the Eternal Return

I have always been an Adventure Seeker whether it is parasailing, geocaching or my car rallys. Theme Parks were a big thing to me until I got older. I still enjoy some of the rush of the rides, but my body is not as tolerant of spinning and hurling anymore. So this new "thing" in Santa Fe has piqued my interest with curiosity.

I am just reading about it and not quite sure where to even launch in. There are several avenues. But the base foundation is a group of artists called the Meow Wolf and it is owned by George RR Martin who is the author of Game of Thrones. So we guess at the onset it is some sort of world where culture and fantasy clash! The place itself is a former strip mall bowling alley that has been transformed into a Daliesque interactive museum. Eventually it will entail concerts, installations, a makespace area and films much like our Walker in the Twin Cities. All curated by this collective of artists.



But the first phase of the endeavor is what is called the Eternal Return. Inside the complex, they have painstakingly built a functioning Victorian house with fictional inhabitants, the Selig family. They are a family of artists and inventor types with peculiar powers and some sort of interdimensional event has taken over the house starting in the dining room where every surface is now warped. Venturing out from here, the entire house is a virtual experience of touching and exploring to unmask a myriad of clues as to what has happened. Thus it becomes a cerebral amusement park experience that is unique to each and every participant. None of the articles seems to state how it all plays out in the essence of a spoiler alert. There are portals under stairs and through refrigerators that unearth galleries of enchanted forests or space ships from Star Trek. Whispering lasers, androgynous droids, fossilized mastodons! How fun is that! At $18, it is cheaper than Valleyfair. Sign me up! I'm impressed.

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